Hypnotist to offer mesmerizing show at Comics Live Comedy Club

September 5th, 2013 admin

By: Julia Arredondo/Special to the Caller-Times

If the thought of watching your brother-in-law quack like a duck or your co-worker act like the latest teen pop sensation makes you smile, catch comedian and hypnotist Gary Conrad at Comics Live Comedy Club this weekend.

Conrad will bring his unique act to the Comics Live Comedy Club stage on Friday and Saturday night. Pre-sale tickets are available at Disc Go Round Records for $12 and tickets are available at the door on the night of the show at club, located inside Gators Sports Bar and Grill.

The performer likes to pull volunteers from the audience and puts on one heck of a show with his powers of persuasion.

“I ask for volunteers at the beginning of the show and they either run on stage or have to be coaxed on stage,” Conrad said. “At a show in Savannah, this father gave his daughter $50 to go on stage and I made her pretend to be her father who was disappointed in his daughter. She ended up looking at her father in the audience and saying ‘Stella, I told you to stop looking for men on the Internet.’”

Having appeared on TV talk shows including “The View,” Conrad’s comedy career spans years of live shows across the country and countless mesmerized participants.

“Hypnosis is not dangerous and you don’t need a license to practice it. It really has a lot to do with behavioral modification and what each volunteer brings to the stage,” Conrad said. “The youngest person I’ve hypnotized was 5 years old (and) the oldest was 80 years old. It’s amazing what people will do on stage.”

The risk of embarrassment shouldn’t dissuade audience members from taking the stage.

“There are perks for volunteering to be on stage as well,” Conrad added. “Each volunteer is actually learning how to enter the hypnosis state, which makes it easier for each participant to enter that state at a later date. A lot of people use hypnosis for losing weight or to quit smoking, so there is a bit of a payoff for being an on stage volunteer.”

Whether it’s to get a kick out of watching people shed their inhibitions on stage or to have a chance at being hypnotized, you won’t want to miss Conrad’s performance.

“It’s a lot of fun and high energy and I’m always surprised at what can come out of a regular human being,” Conrad said. “It’s a labor of love and I’m looking forward to performing in Corpus Christi.”